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"speaker_name": "Hon. Omboko Milemba",
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"content": " Hon. Charles Were, Member for Kasipul."
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"speaker_title": "Hon. Charles Ong’ondo",
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"content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker. I want to indicate that I am a member of the National Cohesion and Equal Opportunity Committee. I am a veteran there. In the last Parliament, I served in the same Committee. I laud my Chairman, Hon. Yussuf, and all Members of the Committee for the executive job done. Even the National Assembly entered into expenses catering for meetings that we held in Nairobi, Coast and western regions where we sampled different State corporations. Wealth in the Republic of Kenya is normally distributed through employment in which consideration for disability was done. The object is to ensure a good percentage, 5 per cent as per Article 54(2) of the Constitution, is brought in. The average non-compliance in 39 institutions is 2.1 per cent. You will note that things are not very good if you go deep in each institution. Some are at 1 per cent or 0.5 per cent while the Act stipulates a minimum of 5 per cent. We checked every part while auditing those institutions, including the Parliamentary Service Commission. It is interesting that even the Parliamentary Service Commission, our employer, has not complied with the minimum of 5 per cent. We have a lot to do. In addition to the employment that comes with income, we checked the working conditions. That is why we have put some recommendations for each organisation to be given time to prepare human resource manuals as a policy so that we can improve. During the audit of the institutions, we noted a person living with a disability faces many challenges. That is why we have put in those recommendations. We also had some observations. We believe some organisations were not bringing good reports because they said applicants were few whenever the advertisement of jobs was done. Kenya’s academia has advanced. There are several institutions of academia, even at lower levels, that have specialised in persons living with disabilities. There are many persons living with disabilities who study and graduate from our higher institutions of learning. Our Report indicates there is no shortage of people living with disability who are qualified for employment. They are there and we noted a lot of discrimination. That is why we brought up very good recommendations. The laws are there, but implementation is the only issue. I request the team in charge to implement this Report after we pass it."
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"content": " Hon. Ibrahim Saney. Did I see him in the House? Yes, go ahead."
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"speaker_name": "Wajir North, UDA",
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"content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker. At the outset, I applaud the Committee for work well done. The Report is thorough, insightful, and comprehensive and is concerning the inclusion of people with disability. Article 54(2) of the Constitution talks of empowering people with disability. More so, Section 2 requires a progressive realisation of mainstreaming people with disabilities in institutions and electoral offices. It suggests that, at least, 5 per cent should be the benchmark. It does not mean that it has to be 5 per cent. There is nothing measurable in the attainment of, at least, 5 per cent, 14 years since the promulgation of our Constitution. The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor"
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"content": "What does “progressive” mean? How has this “at least 5 per cent” been measured over the 14 years of the existence of the current Constitution? The Committee delved into this matter seriously and audited 39 institutions across the country. It is worth recognising that only the Lake Basin Development Authority met the requirements in law. It is good to applaud the authority for standing out to be the only institution in the country that has met the legal threshold in compliance with the law on people living with disability. The average of meeting the threshold for the progressive realisation of mainstreaming people with disability across institutions stands at 2.1 per cent. The last data from the Kenya National Bureau of Statistics (KNBS) shows that 2.2 per cent of Kenya’s population or 0.9 million Kenyans are people with disability. That tells you that there is a sharp decline in people living with disability, relative to the 2009 census. That casts serious issues on how our year 2009 census was conducted. With all the natural vagaries, accidents and problems, it is not logical to say that disability has decreased with time from 2009 to 2019. That indicts how the 2019 census was conducted. That disability has today has diminished, 10 years from the year 2009, goes against science and basic logic. It gives more flesh to those who were agitated that the 2019 census was not well conducted and, more so, in the pastoralist communities of Northern Kenya. It does not augur well that disability has diminished and decreased with population increase - scientifically, rationally and logically. It is only in rural communities where we have a majority of the people with disability. This Committee should know that the institutions required to absorb at least 5 per cent of people with disabilities are not in rural communities and yet, the majority of those people live in rural areas."
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"content": "[The Temporary Speaker (Hon. Omboko Milemba) left the Chair]"
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"content": "[The Temporary Speaker (Hon. Farah Maalim) took the Chair]"
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"speaker_name": "Hon. Farah Maalim",
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"content": " I grant you an additional two minutes."
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"speaker_name": "Wajir North, UDA",
"speaker_title": "Hon. Ibrahim Saney",
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"content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker, for your generosity. Much of the population of people living with disability are in rural communities and yet, our institutions are based in urban centres. This Report falls short of telling us that it is those institutions that should be devolved to rural communities to mainstream more people with disability. The nature of disability is an issue. Mental wellness is a global concern among people today. Such people cannot be mainstreamed or given gainful employment. So, how should the Government conduct itself moving forward? It should build capacity and place persons with disabilities in jobs and make sure that they are capacitated, more so, trained on soft skills so that we can upscale their numbers with time. The most important thing as we speak is that we have laws. We cannot infinitely be making laws, as a House, that are not implemented. They must be implemented. Kenya has a problem with implementation of laws. The law on persons with disabilities is comprehensive. If only we could have implemented it fully, we could be better than we are today."
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"speaker_name": "Wajir North, UDA",
"speaker_title": "Hon. Ibrahim Saney",
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"content": "Hon. Temporary Speaker, with those few remarks, I support."
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